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...human imagination. Microcapsules of water have been incorporated in cigarette filters. Before a smoker lights up he pinches his cigarette, thus breaking the capsules and moistening the filter. Dry floor-scouring pads containing capsules of cleaning and polishing fluid are also being marketed. Aircraft companies are using rivets coated with microcapsules containing primer. When the rivet is forced into place, the capsules break, allowing the primer to flow over both the rivet and the adjoining metal to protect them from corrosion. Manufacturers are testing encapsulated flavors and fragrances in food mixes to increase their shelf life, and nuclear-reactor fuel...
John McDonnel (Legendre), Randall McLeod (Barere), William Dockin (Collot d'Herbois) and George Hamlin (Herault-Sechelles) all manager relatively lively characterizations. But they relied entirely on what Buechner gave them. Not one of them worked out any business to rivet the audience's attention. When Robert Chapman (Robespierre) took the podium to address the Jacobin Club, he held the audience in silence while he put on his glasses. No one else in the cast did something like that--not even Williams...
Hilary T. Harris, 34, also a New Yorker, is a slick and literate stylist and then some. His Seawards the Great Ships is a 29-minute color documentary on the shipbuilders of the Clyde in Scotland. He shows, rivet by plate, how ships are built. The picture won an Oscar two years ago. Harris also does shorter, impressionistic pieces. In Highway, he zips up, down, and under Manhattan's West Side Highway by night and day, sketching the rhythm of the roadway until it fairly comes alive. "My main preoccupation in film is with rhythm, and then color...
Several students have been vocal in their opposition to the shelter program. Signs in Dunster House have been repeatedly removed, forcing the University to rivet them to the walls. Radcliffe girls have also removed signs in the quad...
...small, compact body, every expression of his high-cheekboned face. When he has completed a flourish of movements, he has a trick of presenting himself to the audience with shoulders thrown back and arms outstretched, calling for the ovation that never fails to come. His ability to rivet attention on himself-whether in a soaring lift, a pantherlike leap, or a flamboyant succession of jetes-is so marked that resident dancers gather in the wings to watch...